My 1995 Small Farm

  Chapter 173 The funeral

   "Harvest peanuts!"

   "Collect peanuts and soy beans!"

   When Chen Ling arrived at the threshing field, the grain dealers slowly rode their bikes from the direction of the elementary school, and shouted loudly as they walked.

   So he stopped and asked, "What's the price of peanuts and soybeans?"

  The grain dealer was a thin, black old man with a wrinkled face with his trousers rolled up. After he asked the price, he turned his legs and stopped the car. He first looked curiously at the prey hanging on his body and the two dogs beside him.

   then replied to him: "Last year's Chen Huaan was one piece two, one piece three, this year's new two pieces five or six..."

   "Soybeans are 15 cents more expensive than peanuts."

  Chen Ling laughed as soon as he heard it: "The price you gave is a bit cheap. I just went to the market two days ago, and the soybeans almost broke three dollars."

   "There are three bucks, but that's what the big oil factory collects, and they want the best beans. The price depends on what kind of thing it is..."

  The grain dealer nodded and said, "How many soybeans do you have in your family?"

  Chen Ling said: "Peanuts and soybeans add up to more than five acres of land..."

   "Oh, more than five acres!"

  The grain dealer was instantly happy, and his face was delighted.

   This year, the goods are small, and they also need 10 to 20 pounds, so that the scattered income every day will add up to a lot, and you can also make a lot of money.

This guy   Chen Ling has more than five acres of land, which is a rare big business.

do not miss it.

   "Sell it bro?"

   "Sell it, come and see it at home, I'll let you pretend the price is right."

   "No problem, as long as things are not bad, the price is negotiable."

Chen Ling brought the grain dealer back home. It happened that Wang Susu and a few mothers-in-law were sitting in the yard, hammering soybeans and talking. Seeing Chen Ling leading the stranger back, he was puzzled. Look here.

After knowing that it was a grain dealer, Zhang Qiaoling said: "We heard the shouting just now, and asked Susu about it. Susu said that when it's all dried, you have to send it to the oil mill in the city, and the price is high. Are the dealers in the village willing to pay the price?"

   Indeed, most grain dealers make money from the price difference, relying on hard work to make money.

   Bids are generally lower than those of oil mills.

   Zhang Qiaoling said this on purpose, to make a bottom line, lest the grain dealer lower the price and deceive people.

Sure enough, before Chen Ling spoke, the grain dealer was unhappy, and retorted loudly: "You mother-in-law is talking nonsense, what's wrong with the oil mill, our business is not smaller than the oil mill in the county seat, and the tractor is at the dam at the entrance of your village. It's parked on the road, and filling the bucket is a few thousand dollars, so don't look down on people."

   Zhang Qiaoling didn't quarrel with him when she heard this, she just curled her lips and said, "You should look at the things first and give them a price. The price is right, no one will tell you."

Then he turned his face and smiled at Chen Ling again: "The rich and noble are going to fight wild geese? Or you can, they have been busy for a while and haven't caught a few. You have enough for half a day, enough to eat for several days... "

   The other wives followed suit with admiration, which was very rare.

  Chen Ling responded with a smile, put down the prey hanging on his body, handed it to Wang Susu, then picked up the big head who had already run over, stretched out his small arms at him, and took the grain dealer to the warehouse to see the goods.

   The inside is all beaten and sieved in the past few days and packed.

   "Peanuts are still a little damp. Let's look at the soybeans first. The soybeans have already been hard and rattled. Anyway, they are all good things, and they are not bad."

  Chen Ling opened the snakeskin bag, grabbed it and handed it to him.

  The grain dealer took it, spread out his hand and looked at it, threw two grains into his mouth, and chewed it hard.

   "Well, it's not bad, well done..."

   "I'll look down there."

   said, stretched out his arm and inserted it into the bag forcefully, took out two handfuls, first looked at the color, and then threw a few into his mouth and chewed, and tasted it again.

   This is because I was afraid that it was mixed with last year's Chen Douzi.

   "How is it?"

   After he finished reading, Chen Ling asked.

  The dealer heard the words and asked: "The rest of the bags are also like this, right?"

   "Don't worry, the same thing."

   "No, you can go outside and have a look. My daughter-in-law just hammered some out. Let's compare them together..."

  Chen Ling said.

  The grain dealer was cautious, so he went outside and looked again.

   "Well, in this way, Soybeans will give you two dollars and ninety-five cents."

After reading it, the grain dealer pondered for a few seconds, looked at Chen Ling and said, "It's basically the same price as you send it to the oil mill. Since you have a lot of things, I won't lie to you, I will give you the most honest price. be happy..."

   "If you think you can do it, I'll take a look at Peanuts. It doesn't matter if it's wet, I'll take it for you in one trip."

"Row."

  Chen Ling also simply nodded.

The    delivery to the oil mill can probably be higher, but at most it is only a few cents short, saving you the trouble of fiddling with it.

   And the things of five acres of land can't be pulled out by one or two tinkering.

   Afterwards, he brought the grain dealer to look at the peanuts and set the price. Although the peanuts were slightly damp, they could be dried in two days. Chen Ling originally wanted to let the dealer wait for the peanuts to dry up every two days before loading them.

   As a result, he was in a hurry, the price was two yuan and eight, and he had to pack it all today.

   "Don't worry, the peanuts and beans will be beaten and bagged by us. My brothers are very strong, and we don't need your efforts."

   This guy can hear Chen Ling sighing over and over again how hard they are.

   It is estimated that he is afraid of being robbed by his peers, so he does not want to wait for two days.

fair enough.

  Otherwise, the yard is full of these things every day, and you have to watch the chickens and ducks and the nearby birds go to waste all the time. Selling them as soon as possible can save snacks.

   "The price you gave is not a loss compared to the price of the oil mill, right?"

   After sending off the wives, Wang Susu asked.

   "It's not a loss, and it's not much worse. We can't make much money at this price. It is estimated that it was not sent to our county oil factory..."

  Chen Ling said.

   Actually, Chen Ling's second brother, Wang Susu, and her second brother Wang Qingzhong, was a grain dealer. Otherwise, when Wang Qingwen came, he would not have said that there was a lot of grain in the grain cellar on the mountain.

  Those grains were bought and sold by Wang Qingzhong on weekdays.

   The food dealers like them earn the price difference, but the difference can also be divided into three types:

One is the regional price difference. For example, there is a large oil mill and a large factory in the neighboring county. The county collects it at a low price and sells it. If you are lucky, you can make a difference of two or three cents. .

  The second is the seasonal price difference. Just like Wang Qingzhong, he buys at a low price in the peak season, stores a lot, and sells at a high price in the off-season.

  The third is the quality difference. The traders deliberately devalued the quality of the grain and collected it in the countryside at a low price, and then sold it at a high price, or they mixed old grain with high-quality new grain and sold it as shoddy.

  The grain dealers in these years are mostly from grain purchasing stations, and they are very clever.

   A few years ago, the state carried out the reform of the grain circulation system, and a large number of people in the local grain departments were "voluntarily laid off", and these people were transformed from workers to grain dealers.

   But many contacts are still there, and they know the price news better than the country mud legs.

   Regular use of poor information makes a lot of money.

The last time my uncle and brother Wang Qingwen came to the house, he just wanted to give him an idea. If he couldn't do it, he would also be a grain dealer. After all, it is much more convenient to collect grain here than in the mountains. raise a family.

"that…"

   "Uncle, uncle, that..."

  The peddler rode his car to the village entrance to call someone, but the big head suddenly ran over again, dragged Chen Ling to the door, pointed to the peanut branches piled up beside the firewood stack, and showed him.

   Taking a closer look, it turned out that there was a small thing on the twigs rubbing the wing feathers, making a hoarse cry.

  Chen Ling smiled: "Oh, it's a grasshopper. Uncle will catch it for you."

   In the peanut field in autumn, there are many grasshoppers in the millet field. I harvest millet and peanuts every year. I can catch a lot of them and string them together with grass. After work, sit on the ridge and make a fire and bake it, which is very fragrant.

  Sometimes I will carry one or two on the branches and vines at home. People will crawl around in the yard without noticing, and at night, the grasshoppers on the trees and grape trellis can be heard.

   But this year, due to the late harvest of these crops, there are also few katydids. Now this one is an old katydid, with a blue face and a black body. People don’t avoid them when they get close, and they seem to react very slowly.

  Chen Ling grabbed it and grabbed it in his hands, holding the back of the grasshopper and handing it to Xiaowa: "Come on, grab it, go back and let you drink and eat."

   "Feed the scorpion tiger, uncle, go and feed the scorpion tiger..."

   Big head raised his head, his black and white eyes were open, he looked at him, and a small hand pointed towards the courtyard.

   "Alright, alright, just feed the scorpion tiger."

  Chen Ling asked him to take the katydid, carry him to the hole of the peach tree in the courtyard, and let him feed the scorpions and tigers.

  Scorpion tiger is actually the local name for gecko, also called scorpion tiger.

   Ever since Chen Ling caught two extra-large mountain geckos and raised them in a tree hole, every time this little baby came to the house, his parents had to hold him and look at it.

   And after a long time, Wang Jusheng and Zhang Qiaoling fell asleep when he saw them. They coaxed and deceived him every time, and it took a lot of effort to bring him home.

Now he was holding the grasshopper in his small hand and handed it to the mouth of the cave. The old grasshopper was quickly swallowed into his mouth by a mountain gecko, and he took it back to the tree cave and crunched his companions. After a few moments, only the thighs and wings were left. .

The little baby watched without blinking, until the two geckos had eaten all the grasshoppers, then he turned his head and grinned, showing Chen Ling's milk teeth that were not long, clapping his little hands, and giggling. stop.

   After playing happily, he got down from Chen Ling's arms, poked at the peach tree pit, pulled open crotch pants, and urinated.

   "Good guy, whose bad boy is this, let's see if I don't cut off the cow for you..."

   It was Zhang Qiaoling who saw that there was a lot of food in his family, so he went home and called Wang Jusheng over.

  Wang Jusheng was playing with his son, and the grain dealer's tractor arrived.

   "Hey, my sister-in-law too, what are you calling you to do? You've just been on duty this night, so go back to sleep, I just hit a few geese, wait for you to recover, come over for a drink at night..."

   "Hahaha, your sister-in-law didn't tell me that, I knew I would bring you two bottles of wine. The old pot of wine given by my third aunt in the city is very delicious."

   "Wait, I'll go back and get it first, I'll finish my work later, just in time to get some."

"I don't need to do any work today. My sister-in-law just remembered to go home and called you. Didn't she hear what the grain dealer said? We don't need to worry about it today. The sun is on the ground, and they load it on the tractor by themselves. I can carry out ten bags of soybeans by myself."

   "Ah? That's it? That's fine. I slept for a long time, and I'm not sleepy. It's just that our family of three can help you watch it, so that they don't make trouble."

   As he was saying this, the grain dealer brought another burly middle-aged man into the yard. The man said with a bundle of snakeskin bags and a big pole. When he arrived, he threw the two things on the ground.

   Then he said a few words to Chen Ling and asked him to clean up the other clutter in the yard and pour the tractor in.

   "Sister-in-law, bring your big head and Susu into the house to rest, it's very dirty here later."

   warned, Chen Ling put the sundries aside, and asked the other two to dump the tractor into the yard.

  A semi-old tractor, screeching, the body of which was modified, thick and long, and looked quite strong.

  After stopping in the courtyard, Chen Ling went back to the house to carry the soybeans. The snakeskin bags were evenly packed, and each bag was basically around 120 pounds.

  Chen Ling carried out two bags, the grain dealer tied a piece of rope, hooked the rope with the iron hook of the steel scale, and weighed it while Wang Jusheng recorded the weight.

   When the soybeans are finished weighing, do not rush to load the car body.

  Two grain dealers unloaded the tractor's body, shook the front of the tractor, and rolled back and forth on the soybean pole.

   This is so fast, all the soybeans are done.

   Peanuts will be a little more troublesome, but the two grain dealers are not slow to work. With Chen Ling and the others helping from time to time, they are finished before 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

   In the end, the soybeans and peanuts add up to another nearly 10,000 yuan.

This guy is incredible. Wang Jusheng and his wife were shocked and speechless for a long time. The last time the red eel was more than 10,000 yuan. They know it. , The people in the village kept saying that Chen Ling sold a lot of money, and after doing this, the two of them felt dazed for a while.

   Heart said when did money become so easy to earn?

  It's the same as the wind blowing.

  Fortunately, for the sake of insurance, the grain dealer did not bring so much cash when he went out.

  Otherwise, if they saw so much money all at once, the two of them would not dare to stay here any longer.

   In the afternoon, wait for Chen Ling to come back from the county seat with the passbook.

  Wang Susu is also full of joy.

   I feel that even if I have two more sons, I can afford it.

   took Zhang Qiaoling into the kitchen to slaughter the geese.

   The two of them joined hands to pluck, disembowel, and break the belly of the geese. They cleaned up and left the rest to Chen Ling.

   I'm happy to sell it today.

  Eat the geese stewed in the iron pot and stick the pancakes.

   As the saying goes: "I would rather eat two taels of birds than half a catty of beasts."

   Those who know how to eat know that the less meat, the more fragrant it tastes.

  Especially the ones that fly in the sky are covered in lean meat. Whether it is stewed, roasted, stewed, or roasted, it tastes amazingly fragrant.

  Like today’s wild goose, stewed in an iron pot with firewood, the goose meat is tender and delicious, fragrant and firm after the pot is out of the pot, and after the heat is fully simmered, the import is a rich and fragrant soup, and the bones are crispy after a bite.

   Eating with a mellow old wine is really comfortable.

At this time, the white flour pancakes and corn pancakes that were pasted also sucked up the soup, and the steaming pastry pancakes were picked out with chopsticks. After drinking and eating one, the stomach was warm and felt a real sense of satisfaction, which made people unable to resist. Excited.

   "Auntie, I'm hungry, I need to…"

   Big head stretched out his oily little hands and shouted at Wang Susu.

  Wang Susu had already torn the meat into small strips for him, and then handed him a piece.

   "Susu, leave him alone, you eat yours..."

   "It's okay, sister-in-law, I'm almost done eating."

  Two wives were beside the doll.

  Chen Lingze and Wang Jusheng were drinking wine and chatting. Although the two families often walked around, they hadn't sat together for a long time to eat together.

   This time, it was lively and lively, and we ate until it was dark.

   After sending their family away, Chen Ling and his wife went to bed early because of drinking.

  The unexpected thing is…

   It was almost two o'clock in the morning in the second half of the night, when he was indulging in a beautiful dream, someone came to the house and called him.

   are brothers Chen Ze and Chen Jiang.

   "Fugui, Fourth Grandma is dying, let's go there together."

   (end of this chapter)